syncopated.

doha

i realise i haven't touched my jukebox since i came back. so there's a whole new list for anyone interested. though i doubt anyone really is.


i mentioned this song in the previous post - i have to say it really moves me. inspired me through aus, helped me out of depression, gave me hope. even my mom likes it!

Where did we come from
Why are we here
Where do we go when we die
What lies beyond
And what lay before
Is anything certain in life

They say, Life is too short,
The here and the now
And you're only given one shot
But could there be more,
Have I lived before,
Or could this be all that we've got

chorus

If I die tomorrow
I'd be alright
Because I believe
That after we're gone
The spirit carries on

I used to be frightened of dying
I used to think death was the end
But that was before
I'm not scared anymore
I know that my soul will transcend

I may never find all the answers
I may never understand why
I may never prove
What I know to be true
But I know that I still have to try

(chorus)

bridge

Move on, be brave
Don't weep at my grave
Because I am no longer here
But please never let
Your memory of me disappear

(instrumental)

Safe in the light that surrounds me
Free of the fear and the pain
My questioning mind
Has helped me to find
The meaning in my life again
Victoria's real
I finally feel
A peace with the girl in my dreams
And now that I'm here
It's perfectly clear
I found out what all of this means

(chorus)

to she who's left. and will be back in june.

i'm looking forward to it already. which, unfortunately isn't much of a good thing for my studies, or my consciousness during school hours. especially with so many damn smart pple in school.

cai smsed me like halfway thru sch today to say that he could see white caps from his house. sorry if you're disappointed, bro. go and break manyi's leg la (instead of universal joints). then we can have our rematch in doha.

and while i was hopping around the internet, learning that the asc was postponed cuz they've been constructing a brand new sailing site, i stumbled upon a pic of this dutch dude.

remember a certain steven lefevre? we first met in asc 2000 in singapore. i always remember him taunting me on the start line during our team race - he was singing some very dirty song. i guess i was affected cuz i was supposed to be young and innocent. we were thrashed that race.

then i saw him again in corpus christi in worlds 2002. slightly better impression - he lead the fleet for a couple of days, and excelled in the strong airs.

so, according to what little i could infer from his personal website, he went into the laser 4.7 after opti, and is currently having some measure of success in the radial, along with a magic marine sponsorship. doesn't look to be much bigger than in his opti days though.

it's 21 degrees celcius in doha. 9 knots is reasonable enough. the only thing i'm slightly pessimistic about is the predictably small fleet.


on to other matters. rui xia - 14 points. quite good results. her dad wanted acjc, and so did she, but apparently cannot sia. so much for going home together. cjc instead la.

as for her brother, 205 points, if i'm not wrong. he's in woodlands sec or smth. like, seriously wtf. i think he's too spoilt la. she's complained to me more than a few times how her parents favour the son.

but it's also quite sad that the two of them have to undergo major exams in the same period of time. i can't imagine the stress and tension in that already cramped household.


i'm depressing myself again. gtg listen to that uplifting song again. and listen to stories about pple staying up till 4 in the morning waiting for the lizard in the room to die. ;)

Strummed at 9:50 PM (x)